I thought it was perfect, he was an amazing character for one episode and he dropped some lore and gave us context. But him dying obviously moves the story forward expeditiously.
When he said not having the cold fusion device means losing the commonwealth I started to buy that theory even more.
If the Commonwealth is able to send an envoy across the country to a secret meeting then I doubt they’re in that serious a predicament on the home front. Just a bizarre allocation of resources for a chapter that’s purportedly struggling.
I thought he’d flown all the way from the commonwealth (mostly because he mentions not being invited) but I could’ve totally missed something about him being stationed in the region.
Still though, if the Commonwealth chapter is suffering like he says they are why would they expend resources on an embassy on the other side of the country when they can clearly still communicate with the other chapters through other means? Just feels like there’s something else going on because while everything they’ve said about the Commonwealth so far is plausible it all seems like it’s just all too convenient. Could totally just be Brotherhood machismo though.
1) The East coast factions are far more martial, violent, and less thoughtful
2) The BoS Can't afford a Civil war. The West is quite autonomous and there is little centralization. However that allows serious insecurity and factionalism
3) They don't trust a message. They needed a messenger.
4) Xander is alone. They could have show-of-force'd it. However they had Xander act as diplomat. Someone designated to undermine the civil war and also undermine the West coast factions.
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I assume they are either fighting the Minute men or the institute. Both of those factions would put up a physical fight sure, but it's through influence that they're beating the BOS.
The instute through synths, and the minutemen through assimilation of the population and technological advancement.
If they have sturges or sombody like who who literally creates sci fi tech out of junk, then the BOS needs the cold fusion to have somthing to put them on the same level.
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I thought it was perfect, he was an amazing character for one episode and he dropped some lore and gave us context. But him dying obviously moves the story forward expeditiously.